Professor Holger Zellentin, the PI, has published a monograph, four papers, and delivered nine keynote lectures at various national and international conferences. He has co-organized one of the QaSLA conferences of which he is currently co-editing the proceedings, and has presented his research, the Qur’an’s view of the 'Israelites' and its relationship to late antique Judaism and Christianity at fourteen national and international conferences and workshops. He continues to play a prominent role in the field, serving as the chair of the board of the International Qur'anic Studies Association and co-chairing a Senior Research Seminar series at the University of Tubingen.
Ana Davitashvili´s research focuses on the similarities between the Qurʾan and pre-Islamic Syriac literature. She has published a journal article in the Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association, as well as two book reviews. She was the sole organiser of one of the QaSLA conferences and co-organizer of another one, and she is currently co-editing the proceedings of both. She has presented her research widely at conferences and seminars. Most recently, Ana participated in the conference ‘Unlocking the Byzantine Quran’ held at the University of Paderborn, where she presented a paper on martyrs in the Quran and Syriac texts.
Nadja Abuhussein has been working on her PhD project on the Qurʾān and Arab Christianity, translating and analyzing poems attributed to pre-Islamic Arabian poets. She has identified conceptual similarities between the Qur’an’s representations of God and depictions of God in pre-Quranic Christian Arab poetry. Nadja presented her research at conferences and seminars, and was co-organizer of our international conference, ‘Epigraphy, the Qur'an, and the Religious Landscape of Arabia’, where she also chaired one of the conference’s panels.
Nicolai Sinai has conducted preliminary research on the question of the identity of the Meccan Israelites and the related issues of the degree and nature of Jewish traditions reflected in the Meccan surahs of the Qur’an. Alongside the advice Nicolai provides to the QaSLA post-doc scholars, he continues to present his research at conferences, and is working towards publishing his research in the form of a journal article and conference proceeding paper.
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